Explain Paleey's Philosophical Position For The Existence Of A Deity By David Paley

William Paley found a watch on the ground and assumed that the watch was put together for a purpose. His arguments, then, lead towards the teleological argument, which starts from relatively specific observations to the crucial notion of purpose where there is an intelligent cause to the universe. Paley’s whole argument discusses how there must be a maker of the universe since there is a maker of the watch, which must be God. In contrast, a telescope has a designer, so an eye must also have a designer,

Jefferson Democracy supported a advocated a political system that supported public education, free press, free voting, limited government, and concerning land democracy and move away from aristocratic rule. His presidency changed some of his values, therefore, he wanted a republican system, which states and federal government share. Jefferson’s domestic policies included decreasing the size of government, establishing the development of the first national court system, and furthering what he saw as the agrarian republic. Jefferson was responsible for two cut backs, such as he repealed the taxes Hamilton had appointed, which down sized the number of federal employees. He also cut back the military by having a small army on the western frontier

“In the beginning, humans created a God who was the First Cause of all things and Ruler of heaven and earth” (1). This provides a logical explanation to the possible origins of human’s reliance on supernatural help, though it does not supply an answer to the origin of humans or the universe itself. In a book review published in TIME, supports this claim of God is a man-made creation: “God may well be our most interesting idea. Down the ages, humans have posited a deity, or deities, to fulfil a pragmatic need: primarily, to find meaning and value in life.” (Elson 77)

He states that the universe and all of its working complexities points to the existence of an intelligent creator. There are several alternant and contradicting beliefs to Paley's assertions. Some call into question the validity of the analogy itself. Others say it is an incredibly far jump to assert the existence of a god through the universe since the universe and its workings are so undiscovered by humanity. Paley addresses many of these alternant arguments in his essay.

Supporters within the teleological arguement like to use Paley's watch arguement as justifaction for an intellgent design. However, there's a fault in this arguemtent. Paley's view and example of a watch show funtionlaity with all the pieces of the watch falling together from that of a man made object. Paley's view and that of supporters of the teleological argrumnet lack the complex nature of the Earth. A watch is a single mechansim that with careful design works to tell time. The Earth doesn't have these parts, it has adaptation and many more factors at play rather than a designers intent. David Hume's quote comparing the Earth to a plant is much more accurate on the way the world works. The Earth like a plant takes time to grow and it can easily be altered if the contitions are off to nurture the life it contains. There is no functionalty or purpose for Earth only that it exists. If a god created the Earth then they would of created a world that would be stable and perfect order. Instead we have a world that is a mixture of different ecosyetmes and possibilites for both creation and

Paley’s made his argument using an analogy to prove the existence of god, using a watchmaker analogy and to image if we found a watch on the ground and could it have been possible for the watch to simply appear randomly, spontaneously on its own. Paley was arguing that the teleology demonstrated by a watch would conclude that it was designed by an intelligent creator with a particular end in mind. While Aquinas has a design argument of his own ,the Teleological argument focuses on the condition that allows for life in the universe to only occur when certain fundamental physical constants are within a very narrow range if one of many fundamental constant are off slightly, then the universe would be unfit for the development of matter and life. Since these things are so finely tuned it appears an intelligent designer may have been involved in making sure these things happened so life could occur that designer Aquinas believes to be

William Paley and David Hume’s argument over God’s existence is known as the teleological argument, or the argument from design. Arguments from design are arguments concerning God or some type of creator’s existence based on the ideas of order or purpose in universe. Hume takes on the approach of arguing against the argument of design, while Paley argues for it. Although Hume and Paley both provide very strong arguments, a conclusion will be drawn at the end to distinguish which philosophiser holds a stronger position. Throughout this essay I will be examining arguments with reference to their work from Paley’s “The Watch and the Watchmaker” and Hume’s “The Critique of the Teleological Argument”.

“The Watchmaker Argument” by William Paley has been of great controversy because of its analogy between the creation of a watch and the creation of the universe. Paley’s argument consists of the idea of there being a creator for everything, he uses the complicated composition of a watch as to prove that there has to be a watchmaker and therefore the complicated composition of the universe serves as to prove that there is in fact a Universe creator (God). Although Paley’s argument is strong and valid, David Hume’s opposing argument is more valid due to the premises he uses. Hume argues that it is impossible to compare something created by the human mind to something as complex as the universe simply because there is a lot about the creation of the universe that is unknown, unlike the creation of a house (or watch).

In this paper, I am going to talk about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the two presidential candidates of the 2016 American Election. I will talk about the difference in their views on the topics of immigration, guns, women rights and religion. In what follows, I will argue that Donald Trump is more disliked than Hillary Clinton because of the statements he made against minorities, undocumented immigrants, promises to build a wall on the Mexican border, his negative and disgusting comments about women, and his foul lanuage. I will also talk about why both Trump and Hillary have the highest voters’ dissatisfaction in the American Election Campaign history.

As for Paley’s theory he believes that nature must have a designer and that the designer is God, he believed we all have a purpose and everything that we do has purpose. Paley says that with our abilities to create artifacts that resemble the universe then there has to be a creator of the universe and everything that is in it. Either nature or some of its parts have design like properties they show evidence of being

1. Because of man’s ignorance and curiosity, arguments for the existence of God have been made over the years. Basically, these arguments are divided into two large groups i.e. logical and metaphysical. Actually, these arguments seek to prove that the existence of a being or having faith with at least one attribute that only God could have is logically necessary.

Firstly, we shall focus on the Design (or to use its philosophically technical term, the teleological argument). There are numerous variants of the Design argument, however we shall be focusing on Paley’s version (reference 1) of this theory. Paley’s version of the Design argument is based upon the idea that by looking around at certain features of the world (for example an inanimate object like a rock or say a living creature like dolphin or a person like myself) and theorising that they are too complex and intricate to randomly just manifest. They must have been created by a higher, more intelligent power and thus, if this is accepted as being so, then this proves beyond doubt that God exists.

Firstly, Paley concentrates in the process leading to the creation of the watch. The process for creating a watch is very systematic and involves knowledge of mechanical engineering, a trade known to few men. Yet, it is not necessary to know the inner workings of the watch to use it on a daily basis: it is only necessary to understand the relationship between the position of the watch's hands to the sunrise and sunset of day. Paley concludes that even though he could not create a watch, some supreme being could create such watch. In other words, anything that shows evidence of creation has a creator and such creator exists or has existed at one point in time.

William Paley's argument for the existence of God is an important aspect of the Design argument, which argues that the universe is being directed towards an end purpose due to the a posteriori (subject to experience) evidence of an intelligent designer, who is God. This is because it is perhaps arguably the most famous version, and the theory which modern-day theories for the Design argument are built upon.

Sir Thomas Aquinas and William Paley present two arguments for the existence of God. Aquinas defines God as omnibenevolent (all good) for his argument, and he continues in “The Five Ways” to present arguments to prove God’s existence (Rosen et al. 11). Paley, on the other hand, primarily defines God as a designer worthy of our admiration for his work (Rosen et al. 27). During class discussion, defining God involved three major qualities: omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence. Both Aquinas and Paley are attempting to prove the existence of the (Christian) God associated with these qualities. Although Aquinas’s “Cosmological Argument” and Paley’s “Argument from Design” have different premises, both have a similar logical gap in their